Co-located with The Emergency Tech Show

ESS 2025 Content Programme

From experience to action: disability inclusion in the emergency services

17 Sep 2025
People & Skills Stage
Ambulance
This session will explore our individual personal lived experience of disability, the Disability inclusion initiatives implemented by police and by ambulance respectively and the collaborative work we have done across the two emergency services to improve inclusion for staff, patients and service users.     
Speakers
Dawn Whelan
Dawn Whelan, Business & Partnerships Lead - East of England Ambulance Service
Andrew Price
Andrew Price, Assistant Chief Officer - Derbyshire Police